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Chronicle of the Olympics, 1896-2000

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Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronicle of the Olympics, 1896-2000 written by and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1998 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicle of the Olympics is a comprehensive record of the last 100 years of the modern Olympic Games. Organized chronologically, the book takes an in-depth look at each Summer and Winter Games in turn. Chronicle of the Olympics is also an excellent instant reference source, featuring a complete listing of all the competitive events and medalists since the beginning of the Games. More than 100,000 words chart the complete story of the Olympic Games from Athens 1896 to Atlanta 1996; 750 photographs capture the key dramatic sporting moments as they happened; reveals the inside story of the Games - the hidden rivalries, the boycotts, the individual triumphs and tragedies; and features a comprehensive appendix, listing all the medalists since the beginning of the Games.

The First Modern Olympics

Author : Richard D. Mandell
Publisher : Blacktoad Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0957059108
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The First Modern Olympics written by Richard D. Mandell and published by Blacktoad Publishing. This book was released on 1976 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Olympics

Author : Allen Guttmann
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252070464
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Olympics written by Allen Guttmann and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the modern Olympics from 1896 to 2000, contrasting the ideal of the game with the often politicized reality.

The 1896 Olympic Games

Author : Bill Mallon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476609500
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The 1896 Olympic Games written by Bill Mallon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, much of the world watched and celebrated as athletes broke world records and took home medals, fulfilling their Olympic dreams. The athletes' scores were available instantaneously and are now easily accessible, but what about the performance records of the first modern Olympic athletes? The Modern Olympic Games began in 1896 in Athens, Greece, but an official record of these Olympic games does not exist. This work is the first in a series of comprehensive reference works giving the results of the Olympic Games, beginning in 1896. Based primarily on 1896 sources, the sites, dates, events, competitors, and nations as well as the event results are compiled herein for track and field, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, shooting, swimming, tennis (lawn), weightlifting, wrestling and other sports and events. Although mainly a statistical analysis, this work does include a short synopsis of the Sorbonne Congress and reprints of famous articles about the Olympics.

Chronicle of the Olympics, 1896-1996

Author : DK Publishing, Inc
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Chronicle of the Olympics, 1896-1996 written by DK Publishing, Inc and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: strive to break records and win the gold. The unique chronological format takes readers back in time--as though they were reading a daily newspaper. Inlcudes more than 800 color illustrations and photos.

Chronicle of the Olympics, 1896-1996

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Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN 13 : 9780751330137
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Chronicle of the Olympics, 1896-1996 written by and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 100 years at regular four year intervals, the summer and winter Olympic games have taken place. Whatever political or economic crises may have occured, athletes from every continent have come together regularly for peaceful competition among nations. Only the two World Wars have stopped the Games from taking place.

Chronicles of the Olympics, 1896-1996

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of the Olympics, 1896-1996 written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Modern Olympics

Author : David C. Young
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801872075
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Olympics written by David C. Young and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coubertin's main contribution to the founding of the modern Olympics was the zeal he brought to transforming an idea that had evolved over decades into the reality of Olympiad I and all the Olympic Games held thereafter.

Olympics in Athens 1896

Author : Michael Llewellyn Smith
Publisher : Profile Business
ISBN 13 : 9781861973429
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Olympics in Athens 1896 written by Michael Llewellyn Smith and published by Profile Business. This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in the year that The Olympics returned to Athens this is the illuminating story of the making of the modern games, the multinational group of intriguing characters who re-invented them and the first generation of new sporting heroes. 'On 5 April 1896 James B. Connolly of the Suffolk Athletic Club, Boston, projected himself 13 m and 71 cm through the Attic air in the newly restored Panathenaic Stadium of Athens, in the hop, step and jump, and became the first Olympic victor for more than 1500 years.' That opening sentence gives the flavour of a rich and often entertaining work of history that brings together the following intriguing strands: the rise of amateur athletics in Britain, the US, France, Germany and other western countries, each with its own particular stamp; the enormous interest aroused by the excavation of ancient Olympia, the site of the ancient Games; the determination of the eccentric French aristocrat Baron Pierre de Coubertin to embody the amateur athletic ideal in a revival of the Games; and a perception by politicians and the Greek royal family that hosting Coubertin's Games could help to put the young Greek state on the European map.

The Games: A Global History of the Olympics

Author : David Goldblatt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393254119
Total Pages : 755 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Games: A Global History of the Olympics written by David Goldblatt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book Review A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics developed into a global colossus and highlighting how they have been buffeted by (and affected by) domestic and international conflicts. Along the way, Goldblatt reveals the origins of beloved Olympic traditions (winners’ medals, the torch relay, the eternal flame) and popular events (gymnastics, alpine skiing, the marathon). And he delivers memorable portraits of Olympic icons from Jesse Owens to Nadia Comaneci, the Dream Team to Usain Bolt.

The Olympic Games, B.C. 776-A.D. 1896

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Olympic Games, B.C. 776-A.D. 1896 written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the history of the Olympic games in ancient times, as well as the story of the Olympic games in 1896.

A Brief History of the Olympic Games

Author : David C. Young
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470777753
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of the Olympic Games written by David C. Young and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence. Classics professor David Young, who has researched the subject for over 25 years, reveals how the ancient Olympics evolved from modest beginnings into a grand festival, attracting hundreds of highly trained athletes, tens of thousands of spectators, and the finest artists and poets.

History of Olympic Games

Author : Hugh Harlan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258872519
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book History of Olympic Games written by Hugh Harlan and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.

The Olympian Games in Athens, 1896

Author : Burton Holmes
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Olympian Games in Athens, 1896 written by Burton Holmes and published by Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 1984 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Olympic Marathon

Author : David E. Martin
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN 13 : 9780880119696
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book The Olympic Marathon written by David E. Martin and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Olympic event can rival the rich history and grand spectacle of the marathon. Created for the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 as a commemoration of the legendary run by the Greek messenger Philippides, the race has endured like no other, producing a century of awe-inspiring competition and unforgettable stories. The Olympic Marathon brings the high drama and rich details of the past 24 Olympic marathon races to life in a way no other book ever has. This definitive resource, written by world-renowned Olympic marathon experts David Martin and Roger Gynn, goes beyond statistics to offer readers a vivid chronicle of the athletes and their memorable marathon performances. Fans will relive the compelling moments that have made the Olympic marathon legendary: Spiridon Louis winning the first modern Olympic marathon in Athens in 1896, Emil Z "topek's dramatic triple-gold performance in 1952, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila winning a gold medal while running barefoot, Joan Benoit Samuelson earning her place in history as winner of the first Olympic women's marathon in 1984, and many other fascinating stories. For each race, The Olympic Marathon provides the following: -A summary of the geographical setting and political climate surrounding the Olympic Movement -A course map and detailed street description -A step-by-step narrative of how the race was run -Biographical sketches of the top three finishers -A "Looking Ahead" section, which summarizes marathon highlights leading up to the next Olympic marathon Generously illustrated, often with rare and never-before-published photos, a pictorial glimpse is provided into the contemporary atmosphere and dynamics of each race. Plus, for readers who want complete statistics on each race, the book provides a comprehensive appendix. Included are chronological and alphabetical race results for all men and women who participated in the event and listings of the fastest men's and women's Olympic marathon performances. The Olympic Marathon is the authoritative book on the race that has captured the imagination of the world. It's a one-of-a-kind resource that every fan of running and the Olympics will treasure.

Sports, Exercise, and Fitness

Author : Mary Beth Allen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313068577
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Sports, Exercise, and Fitness written by Mary Beth Allen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-03-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For reference librarians and researchers seeking information on sports and fitness, this guide is an important first stop. For collection development specialists, it is an invaluable selection guide. Allen describes and evaluates over 1,000 information sources on the complete spectrum of sports: from basketball, football, and hockey to figure skating, table tennis, and weight training. Focusing on English-language works published between 1990 and the present, the guide thoroughly covers traditional reference sources, such as encyclopedias and bibliographies, along with instructional sources in print formats, online databases, and Web sites. To enable users in search of information on specific sports or fitness activities, chapters are organized thematically, according to broad- type aquatic sports, nautical sports, precision and accuracy, racket sports, ice and snow sports, ball sports, cycling, and so on, with subcategories for such individual sports as soccer, golf, and yoga. Within these categories, works are further organized by type: reference, instructional, and Web sites.

History of the Olympic Games

Author : Cameron Macintosh
Publisher : Heinemann Library
ISBN 13 : 9781442556478
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book History of the Olympic Games written by Cameron Macintosh and published by Heinemann Library. This book was released on 2011 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Olympic Games chronicles the development of the Olympic Games. Find out about the Games' ancient beginnings prior to 1300 BCE in Olympia, their revival in 800 BCE by King Iphitos of Elis and their modern revival in 1896 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin.